Jaime Ruiz

Awarded Google Faculty Award

Jaime — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:49:33 +0000

I have been awarded a Google Research Award to extend my work on motion gestures. I am extremely thankful and am looking forward to collaborating again with Yang Li. Keep checking the Motion Gestures Project Page for updates on the project.

Math, Science & Technology Day

Jaime — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:22:16 +0000

Today my students and I hosted 3 4th grade classes from the Fort Collins area to learn about programming as part of CSU’s Math Science & Technology Day. We had a lot of fun using B.Y.O.B to learn about basic computer programming.

Paper on Bilevel Thresholding Presented at MobileHCI

Jaime — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:42:33 +0000

Today Matei presented out paper on Bi-level thresholding at MobileHCI in San Francsico.

For more information check out http://www.jaimeruiz.com/research/publications/a-recognition-safety-net-bi-level-threshold-recognition-for-mobile-motion-gestures

Website Updated

Jaime — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:34:17 +0000

Website has been updated to reflect my new position at Colorado State University.

Details:
-Custom installation of Concrete5
-Wordpress for the blog
-Responsive Design (works well on phones and tablets)

Paper on User Defined Motion Gestures Given Google Honors

Jaime — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:10:55 +0000

My paper on User Defined Motion Gestures for Mobile Interaction has been named an “Excellent Paper of 2011″ by Google Research. Google Research choose the most “influential papers authored or co-authored by Googlers covering all of 2011″ and selected my paper for the field of HCI.

Accessing Action Variables in your Layout

Jaime — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:53:48 +0000

Lately have been spending some of my free time trying to learn zf2. So far I have found there to be quite a steep learning curve, and I am usually good at picking up things quickly. One problem I have encountered while developing a sample app is accessing variables set in the ActionController in my layout.phtml. After some googling I found this great blog post:

http://akrabat.com/zend-framework-2/access-view-variables-in-another-view-model/

However, it did not work for me. When I tried to access the child nodes using:

$children = $this->viewModel()->getCurrent()->getChildren();

I consistently received errors because the method getCurrent() returned null. After a lot of trial and error, my solution was to set the layout variables in the ActionController. For example:

    public function indexAction()
    {
        $myvars = array('myvar' => 'test');
        $this->layout()->setVariables($myvars);
        return array('myvar' => 'test');
    }

While this is a horrible hack, it accomplished my goal. Now in my layout template I can simply use the following to output the variable.

   myvar; ?>

MobileHCI Paper on Bi-level Thresholding Accepted

Jaime — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:41:58 +0000

Paper on Bi-level Thresholding Accepted to MobileHCI 2012 Continue reading →

Thesis successfully defended.

Jaime — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:08:28 +0000

Today I successfully defended my thesis titled “Predicting Endpoint of Goal-Directed Motion in Modern Desktop Interfaces using Motion Kinematics”.

Next stop the CS department at Colorado State University.

Paper on Publicly-Shared Displays Accepted to DIS 2012

Jaime — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:41:26 +0000

Paper on Publicly-Shared Displays Accepted to DIS 2012 Continue reading →

Paper accepted to AVI 2012

Jaime — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:17:29 +0000

Our paper titled “Tap, Swipe, or Move: Attentional Demands for Distracted Smartphone Input”, which examines the temporal and cognitive cost associated with using motion input on smartphones has been accepted to Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2012